Dr Joachim Scheven, Ph.D.
Paleontologist (Germany)
Biography
Dr Joachim Scheven is a zoologist/paleontologist with a Ph.D. from the University
of Munich. He worked as a research biologist at an institute in Tübingen and
taught in Africa and Germany before setting up his single-handedly amassed collection
of ‘living fossils’ in a Flood geology display at the Lebendige Vorwelt
museum in Hagen Germany. He is also an expert on insects preserved in amber.
A living fossil
Dr Scheven even has a species of twisted-wing insect named after him: Bohartilla
joachimscheveni (right). He discovered it in Dominican amber (fossilised
tree resin),1 which evolutionists
claim is 35 million years old. If that were true, imagine how many millions of generations
of this Bohartilla would have given mutations the opportunity to change
this type drastically. However, it is fundamentally identical to the living Bohartilla
from Central America. The middle photo (genus Stichotrema) is also
from Dominican amber, and again is identical to the living Stichotrema
in the right photo. All are males of the insect order Strepsiptera (twisted wing).
(From Creation magazine, 20(3):55, June–August 1998.
Photos courtesy of Dr Scheven.).
Fossils never show any significant ‘evolution’—rather, they show
that fossil creatures have no remaining living counterparts (extinction), or that
they have stayed essentially the same (stasis), or have degenerated (lost information).
Reference
- Ragnar Kinzelbach and Hans Pohl, The Fossil Strepsiptera (Insecta:
Strepsiptera), Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87(1):59–70,
1994. Return to text
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